Phil Stinson and Steve Brewer recently presented the research project’s current findings at the American Society of Criminology conference in Atlanta, Georgia. Their presentation was recorded and is available as an mp3 audio file on iTunes.

Police Integrity Lost: A Longitudinal Study of Nonfederal Sworn Law Enforcement Officers Arrested Across the United States

Support was provided by the Wallace Action Fund of Tides Foundation, on the recommendation of Mr. Randall Wallace.

This project was previously
supported by Award No. 2011-IJ-CX-0024, awarded by the National Institute of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice. The opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this blog are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect those of the Department of Justice.

Goals of the Research Project

There are three major goals of the project. The first goal of this research is to determine the nature and extent of police crime in the United States. The second goal is to determine what factors influence how a police organization responds to arrests of officers. The third and final goal of the research is to foster police integrity by exploring whether police crime and officer arrests correlate with other forms of police misconduct.